>With news that Basil Tsiokos, long-time artistic director of NewFest: The New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Film Festival, had recently stepped down from his post, we had more of that earth-shifting-beneath-us sense that the film festival world is truly changing. But even...
>As noted in last week's CineKink update, we'd been so transfixed in an election-related fog the past several weeks that we lost sight of the fact that our final deadline for submissions was rapidly approaching.So, to accommodate everyone who might be in a similar...
>Somehow escaping notice in our post-election haze was the closing of the Pioneer Theater, a venerable Lower East Side institution and home to our monthly CineKink screening series for a brief but happy duration.Reportedly another victim of rising real estate costs in the neighborhood, the...
>Tonight's episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation will reprise one of our favorite prime-time characters, Lady Heather, the mysterious sometimes love interest of the tortured Gil Grishom.Are they meant to be? You can weigh in on the program's message-board--but first, check out this CBS-compiled...
>Somehow in the frenzy leading up to Tuesday's presidential election, we missed this item on Huffington Post from our friend, Theresa Darklady Reed, in which she points us to a prediction from the extreme religious right that an Obama presidency will lead to a...
>We took yesterday off as a time to absorb and reflect upon the momentous event of Tuesday's presidential election. (And, well, yeah, nurse a bit of a hangover.)Among our favorite remembrances, this image from Viviane's Sex Carnival, who braved the hordes and smut of...
>We've been so pins-and-needles over tomorrow's election thing, we're totally late to the party for the 40th birthday of the MPAA's rating system. Oh, well--it's not like they bothered to show up for our 40th shindig. Founded in 1968, largely as a way for...
>When you think about it, patterning yourself after Don Draper makes a good deal more sense than wearing eyeliner and big, furry hats and plying your target with subtle insults.And the suit never hurts....
>No on Prop 8, that is! And with just one week left before the votes are tallied, here's a way to get into the fray while making sure that both activist and libidinous urges are fully sated. For one day only--Tuesday, October 28--Comstock...
>And likely a somewhat noxious smoke at that, as the good Reverend Eldredge--in a ceremonial burning and "holy hose-down"-- recently set flame to a cache of pornographic celluloid that was discovered in the old drive-in theater his church had recently purchased. The ritual was...